Re: Trivial bug on apt-file (Was : Re: Development standards for unstable)
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 12:07:02PM -0600, Bill Allombert wrote:
>
> There are technical ways to solve the problem (e.g. to depend on
> wget|curl and to detect which one is available at start up).
>
> If the mainatiner is willing to give more input than 'it is not a bug'
> on what behaviour he would accept, we can probably come up with a patch.
That would be an ideal solution, which was already proposed in
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=307833;msg=75
And was responded on a mail (dunno remember if to the bug, to d-d or on IRC)
that the user can utilize several other download managers, but that defeats
the whole purpose of having it done automatically. Besides, if that is the
case, the maintainer can find the most common downloaders and put them as |
dependencies, and receive patches to add config snipets for the most common
case.
Depending on some basic utilities (wget is installed by default on a debian
system) and not providing a simple check for finding the one which is already
installed and use it, instead of giving an error that does not explain the
nature of the problem (heh,
[ -x $(which curl) ] || { echo "install curl or modify /pathtoconf" ; exit 1;}
would do it) is nonsensical.
The current intent to NMU is not solving the problem, since depending in
wget|curl and having to modify the config file leads to the same problem if
the config points to curl and the user has wget.
Besides, the maintainer gave some answers that i consider not technically
adecuate, and some might even say are arrogant:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=307833;msg=34
--
Jesus Climent info:www.pumuki.org
Unix SysAdm|Linux User #66350|Debian Developer|2.6.14|Helsinki Finland
GPG: 1024D/86946D69 BB64 2339 1CAA 7064 E429 7E18 66FC 1D7F 8694 6D69
Sick as a dog. Gonna vomit.
--Dr. Evil (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me)
Reply to: